Name: ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription By ACSM
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ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription by ACSM

Recommended in the Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library - April 2003 This comprehensive Fourth Edition has been revised and updated to reflect changes in the KSA's and in the new edition of the Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Sixth Edition. Primarily a certification text, this resource manual is lavishly illustrated and features an icon system in each chapter and index to indicate appropriate KSA material. Lecturers - Click here to order a FREE Review Copy of this title

Section one Lifestyle and health: conceptual basis for coronary artery disease risk factor assessment in clinical practice; epidemiology of physical activity, physical fitness, and selected chronic diseases; diet and chronic disease; tobacco exposure and chronic illness; influence of emotional distress on chronic illness; integration of lifestyle behaviours. Section two Anatomy: cardiovascular anatomy; respiratory anatomy; musculoskeletal anatomy; surface anatomy. Section three Biomechanics: mechanical load on the body; biomechanics and physiology of posture and gait; low back exercises - prescription for the healthy back and when recovering from injury. Section four Exercise physiology: fundamentals of exercise metabolism; normal cardiorespiratory esponses to acute exercise; abnormal cardiorespiratory responses to acute exercise; cardiorespiratory adaptations to exercise; factors affecting the acute neuromuscular responses to resistance exercise; chronic musculoskeletal adaptations to resistance training; mechanisms of muscular fatigue; detraining and retention of adaptations induced by endurance training; deconditioning and bed rest - induced effects on bone health; deconditioning and bed rest - musculoskeletal response; environmental considerations - heat and cold; exercise and the environment - altitude and air pollution. Section five Coronary artery disease: coronary atherosclerosis; manifestations of coronary atherosclerosis; diagnosis of coronary artery disease; medical and invasive interventions in the management of coronary; artery disease. Appendix: Drugs-resource list; comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduction in patients with coronary artery disease. (Part contents)

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9780781725255

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0781725259

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ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription by ACSM

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ACSM

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Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

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20010401

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715

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ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription by ACSM

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ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription by ACSM

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